18 year old teen shot by police in grandparents home...

about 2am monday august 11, 2008 on the 200 block of gerritt street in south philly...neightbors called police suspicious of a possible break-in. it turns out the teen broke into his grandparents home while they were away. he apparently had a knife and was suicidal... he was shot in the head twice and is in critical condition @ jefferson hospital.i hope they investigate this one...weird.

Beau Zabel...23, tragic loss...a strike against phillys future...

another promising life lost to gun violence in philly...again...we cannot become numb to the endless tragic and SENSELESS violence.(see www.southphillyreview.org)Beau Zabel, 23 worked @ Starbucks @ 4th and South.He was new to philly...he moved here from Minnesota in early May to be a Phiadelphia Teaching Fellow. He was shot dead in the 800 block of Ellsworth on his way home from a 12midnight shift .His iPod was taken and his pockets were turned inside out. I am so sorry for him,,his family, friends a co-workers,for the children in Philadelphia's schools who will still need his bright enthusiasm...but I feel most ashamed that the mean streets of my city, Philly, took his young life before it even got a fair start.
My first apartment in Philly was at 10th & Ellsworth...I walked to and from Center City daily,nightly.
when I lived @ 16th & Pine the Center City Jogger ran past on her last 5am jog ever...her body was dumped in a stairwell in the 20 something& Pine area.The list of crimes floods my memory as I blog...some were people i knew and some were strangers but not for long as their untimly violent death sealed a belief in me that we are all in this together and a loss of a human being is undeniably tragic to us ALL.

Filthadelphia!

How did the clean up go on your block? It looks like they missed some trash around my way...

Goddamn Killagram! The House Blew the F*#$! Up!!!

The house on 6th and Bainbridge just blew!